Weekends with Ben O’Hara-Byrne

Weekends with Ben O’Hara Byrne will showcase Ben’s signature curiosity, good humour, and love for great Canadian stories - whenever you're listening. Learn new things, hear surprising perspectives, and head into your day with fresh stories to talk about.

Ben O’Hara Byrne brings decades of experience in journalism, broadcast, and connecting with people to the microphone. Throughout his career, he’s held reporting & anchor roles across Canada, from Quebec City to Ottawa to Victoria. He’s been a network bureau chief in Beijing and London, U.K. And, he’s reported on stories around the world, including Afghanistan, North Korea, Libya, Ukraine and Russia.

News
Politics
826
Why is Donald Trump taunting Canada?
15 min
827
What did Canadians check out on YouTube in 2024?
7 min
828
Brain Rot is the Oxford Word of the year
10 min
829
Why Canada’s housing crisis showed few signs of...
17 min
830
How immigration became a dominant topic in Cana...
16 min
831
Trudeau founders, incumbents stagger, Trump ret...
18 min
832
After a devastating wildfire, Jasper ends 2024 ...
17 min
833
What events, people, and trends Canadians were ...
17 min
834
The surprising ways in which games have changed...
17 min
835
Airlines try to crackdown on air rage incidents...
17 min
836
The humble origins of one of the world’s most e...
16 min
837
Giving a gift? Turns out late isn’t a bad thing...
16 min
838
A top FBI criminal profiler on what we’ve learn...
35 min
839
Man suspected of killing United Healthcare CEO ...
18 min
840
Syrians around the world react to the fall of A...
17 min
841
How cancer can mean ‘staggering’ costs for pati...
16 min
842
40 years since Do They Know It’s Christmas and ...
17 min
843
The fragile place we call Earth and how the uni...
17 min
844
How much higher can Bitcoin climb?
18 min
845
What’s hot and what’s not in Canadian real esta...
17 min
846
2024’s most mispronounced words
16 min
847
Notre-Dame Cathedral reopens
17 min
848
Health-care workers hope to revolutionize frost...
17 min
849
The Ford government’s plan to send nuclear powe...
17 min
850
Ride like the wind: A new documentary pays tri...
34 min